Example sentences of "men [Wh pn] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them . |
| 2 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 3 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 4 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 5 | She wondered about the other men who had been on the plane , and what theirs felt like . |
| 6 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 7 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 8 | Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him . |